Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2011: Publishers Weekly

Fiction 2012: Women's Prize

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

The Lowdown
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
Eddington Ari Aster
Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances
Connie Connie Chung
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha

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